Police have been privatised by stealth

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woman police officer's hat
woman police officer's hat

The privatisation of the police reaches a new low in the New Year with the launch of the insurer-funded, £3m-a-year, 35-officer insurance fraud unit. Coppers won't get off their backsides unless somebody pays them to.

The police got a taste for charging to tackle crime they should have been tackling anyway from speed camera partnerships a decade ago. Now everyone has to pay twice for policing.

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